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The formation of topological defects in second-order phase transitions can be investigated by solving partial differential equations for the evolution of the order parameter in space and time, such as the Langevin equation. We demonstrate…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-12-02 Fumika Suzuki , Wojciech H. Zurek

Quantum phase transitions are characterised by the universal scaling laws in the critical region surrounding the transitions. This universality is also manifested in the critical real-time dynamics through the quantum Kibble-Zurek…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-21 Jose Soto Garcia , Natalia Chepiga

We revisit the Kibble-Zurek mechanism by analyzing the dynamics of phase ordering systems during an infinitely slow annealing across a second order phase transition. We elucidate the time and cooling rate dependence of the typical growing…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2013-05-29 Giulio Biroli , Leticia F. Cugliandolo , Alberto Sicilia

We simulate interaction quenches crossing from a superfluid to a supersolid state in a dipolar quantum gas of ${}^{164}\mathrm{Dy}$ atoms, trapped in an elongated tube with periodic boundary conditions, via the extended Gross-Pitaevskii…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2025-07-01 Wyatt Kirkby , Hayder Salman , Thomas Gasenzer , Lauriane Chomaz

In this paper we study the driven critical dynamics in the three-state quantum chiral clock model. This is motivated by a recent experiment, which verified the Kibble-Zurek mechanism and the finite-time scaling in a reconfigurable…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2019-05-22 Rui-Zhen Huang , Shuai Yin

The Kibble-Zurek mechanism (KZM) predicts the density of topological defects produced in the dynamical processes of phase transitions in systems ranging from cosmology to condensed matter and quantum materials. The similarity between KZM…

We investigate the out-of-equilibrium dynamics of a relativistic $Z_2$-symmetric scalar field theory with Langevin dynamics in two and three spatial dimensions under linear driving across magnetic first-order phase transitions, close to and…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-05-12 Leon J. Sieke , Jessica Fuchs , Lorenz von Smekal

We study localization and many-body localization transition in one dimensional systems in the presence of deterministic quasi-periodic potential. We use single-particle excitations obtained through single-particle Green's function in real…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2024-03-15 Yogeshwar Prasad , Arti Garg

When matter undergoes a continuous phase transition on a finite timescale, the Kibble-Zurek mechanism predicts universal scaling behavior with respect to structure formation. The scaling is dependent on the universality class and is…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2019-02-07 Yiping Chen , Munekazu Horikoshi , Kosuke Yoshioka , Makoto Kuwata-Gonokami

We study the one-dimensional Cahn-Hilliard equation with an additional driving term representing, say, the effect of gravity. We find that the driving field $E$ has an asymmetric effect on the solution for a single stationary domain wall…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-28 C. L. Emmott , A. J. Bray

As a simplified description of the non-equilibrium dynamics of buckled dimers on the Si(001) surface, we consider the anisotropic 2D Ising model and study the freezing of spatial correlations during a cooling quench across the critical…

We study the localization properties of the quasiperiodic one-dimensional helical chain with two tunneling paths: nearest-neighbor and a long-range hop that connects sites of consecutive helical turns. Using exact diagonalization, we…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2025-12-23 Taylan Yildiz , B. Tanatar

The Kibble-Zurek effect is studied around a tricritical point, where the adiabatic-impulse scenario breaks down. Several new scaling forms are also proposed.

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-11-27 Chengshu Li

We investigate an extension of the quantum Ising model in one spatial dimension including long-range $1 / r^{\alpha}$ interactions in its statics and dynamics with possible applications from heteronuclear polar molecules in optical lattices…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2017-09-15 Daniel Jaschke , Kenji Maeda , Joseph D. Whalen , Michael L. Wall , Lincoln D. Carr

The quantum Kibble-Zurek mechanism (QKZM) predicts universal dynamical behavior near the quantum phase transitions (QPTs). It is now well understood for the one-dimensional quantum matter. Higher-dimensional systems, however, remain a…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2022-10-26 Markus Schmitt , Marek M. Rams , Jacek Dziarmaga , Markus Heyl , Wojciech H. Zurek

We experimentally probe the distribution of kink pairs resulting from driving a one-dimensional quantum Ising chain through the paramagnet-ferromagnet quantum phase transition, using a single trapped ion as a quantum simulator in momentum…

In transverse-field Ising models, disorder in the couplings gives rise to a drastic reduction of the critical energy gap and, accordingly, to an unfavorable, slower-than-algebraic scaling of the density of defects produced when the system…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2023-12-15 R. Juhász , G. Roósz

The nonequilibrium dynamics of a periodically driven extended XY model, in the presence of linear time dependent magnetic filed, is investigated using the notion of dynamical quantum phase transitions (DQPTs). Along the similar lines to the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2024-05-27 Sara Zamani , J. Naji , R. Jafari , A. Langari

In the non-adiabatic dynamics across a quantum phase transition, the Kibble-Zurek paradigm describes that the average number of topological defects is suppressed as a universal power law with the quench time scale. A conflicting…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-03-21 S. Sadeghizade , R. Jafari , A. Langari

We show that a simple approximation based on concepts underlying the Kibble-Zurek theory of second order phase transition dynamics can be used to treat avoided level crossing problems. The approach discussed in this paper provides an…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-11 Bogdan Damski , Wojciech H. Zurek